. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 312 The Oaks pointed, about 5 mm. long and covered by hairy scales. The leaves are ovate to oblong-lanceolate, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, with thick-tipped teeth or quite entire on the strongly revolute margia. They are thick and leath- erj'^, dark green, smooth and shining above, pale and stellate-hairy, with a stout midrib and prominent venation beneath, persisting for two or more years, the leaf-stalk stout,
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. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 312 The Oaks pointed, about 5 mm. long and covered by hairy scales. The leaves are ovate to oblong-lanceolate, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, with thick-tipped teeth or quite entire on the strongly revolute margia. They are thick and leath- erj'^, dark green, smooth and shining above, pale and stellate-hairy, with a stout midrib and prominent venation beneath, persisting for two or more years, the leaf-stalk stout, flat, hairy and about 12 mm. long. The flowers appear from April to June, the stami- nate in hairy catkins 7 to 12 cm. long; the calyx is hairy, 5 to 7-lobed, hght yeUow; stamens 8 to 10, ex- serted; anthers oblong, sharpjpointed, yellow. The pistillate flowers are nearly sessile or few together in spikes, their involucral scales and calyx hairy; styles short, flat, spreading and red. The fruit, ripening at the end of the second season, is nearly sessile or on short, stout stalks; nut ovoid-oval, 4 cm. long, its shell thick, somewhat scurfy hairy inside; the cup is hemispheric, about 2 cm. across, thin, hght brown and hairy inside, thin-rimmed, embracing only about one fourth of the nut, covered by ovate, sharp-pointed, brown and very hairy scales. The wood is hard, close-grained, yellowish brown; its specific gravity is about 0.72. It is used for fuel. The species is closely related to Q. chrysolefis.. Fig. 264. — Island Oak. 30. LIVE OAK — Quercns viiginiana Miller Quercus virens Aiton. Quercus Rolfsii Small This characteristic evergreen tree of low, sandy soil, mostly near the coast, occurs from Virginia to Florida and westward into Texas, also in Mexico, and it is- abimdant in western Cuba. It is a large and handsome wide-spreading round- topped tree, having a maximum height of 30 meters, a trunk diameter of 2.5 m., and sometimes a spread of 45 m. The trunk is much butt